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Everyone who wants to make his WordPress web site more secure should definitely spend at least one hour of his life reading the Hardening WordPress chapter of the WP official …
How to automatically set File System Permissions for a WordPress Web Server with a BASH Script Read More
In this previous post we explained how to install and configure a FTP server in Linux CentOS 7 using the popular VSFTPD open-source package. As we have clarified there, the File …
How to secure VSFTPD FTP Server using a self-signed SSL/TLS certificate in CentOS 7 - FTPS Read More FTP, short for File Transfer Protocol, is a traditional and widely used standard for transferring files over a network. The transfer happens via a standard client-server connection with or without …
How to install and configure a FTP Server in Linux CentOS 7.x with VSFTPD Read More
Nginx is a high-performance, low-overhead optimized web server that can handle HTTP and HTTPS connections, which can also work as a reverse proxy and load balancer: it also has a lot of useful …
How to install NGINX in CentOS 7 or FreeBSD and configure it to act as a Reverse Caching Proxy for Apache Read More
In the latest days we've published a number of Nginx-related post that might be useful for those who want to implement a FastCGI-Cache or a Proxy-Cache solution to speed up their …
Web Site Caching without a Reverse Proxy: how to cache web pages using Apache, mod_cache and mod_cache_disk Read More A couple days ago I posted a tutorial about caching a web site using Nginx and FastCGI-Cache in CentOS 7, which is a great alternative to the Reverse-Proxy cache technique …
How to cache your website using NGINX Reverse Proxy and Proxy-Cache in CentOS 7 Read More Among the many good reasons leading more and more Linux System Administrators to migrate from Apache Web Server to Nginx, performance plays a decisive role: not only Nginx is arguably …
How to cache your website using NGINX and FastCGI in CentOS 7 with PHP FastCGI Process Manager PHP-FPM Read More
We already explained the basics about HTTP Security Headers in this previous post: it's now time to put these concepts into action and implement them within our Apache-based web site …
Apache - How to setup the httpd.conf file to send HTTP Security Headers with your web site (and score an A on securityheaders.io) How to setup the httpd.conf to secure all your Apache-hosted websites with the required HTTP Security Headers and get A rate from securityheaders.io scan. Read More We already explained the basics about HTTP Security Headers in this previous post: it's now time to put all these words into action and learn how we can implement them …
IIS - How to setup the web.config file to send HTTP Security Headers with your web site (and score an A on securityheaders.io) How to tweak your web application's web.config file to secure your Windows + IIS hosted website with the required HTTP Security Headers and get A rate from securityheaders.io scan. Read More
Did you ever heard the statement "a fish rots from the head down"? This phrase is often used to blame the leadership for the failure of an organization, but it …
What are HTTP Security Headers and how to properly implement them in IIS, Apache and Nginx to secure your web site Read More